Vincent Veyron wrote:
Hi Group,
I host a web service for my customers (ex : insurance_company.com) on a
virtual host (*); my customers in turn want their customers (the
policyholders) to have access to the data, while using their internet
name instead of mine.
This works fine with the ServerAlias directive inside the VirtualHost
directive :
ServerAlias extranet.insurance_company.com as-pro.biz
and the appropriate DNS settings.
That way, the policy holder can type
'http://extranet.insurance_company.com/clients/login' and have access to
the data, transparently hitting my server at as-pro.biz.
Not really. I think you need to read up more on how VirtualHosts work.
My problem is the following : I have a handfulf of potential clients (3
now, 6 at most), who all want the login form to the service customized
with their logo. I cannot however know which logo to select before the
user fills in the form.
Well, you can, because each customer (or customer of customer) presumably uses a different
hostname to reach the server.
The names API :
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/ServerRec.html#C_names_
was apparently a solution for me, but it is not implemented in 2.0, and
I am not able to code it.
Is there another way for me to pass to my PerlResponseHandler which
ServerAlias was used?
(* : the service processes insurance claims for sick leaves; if you care
to see what it looks like :
http://as-pro.biz/clients/login?nom_utilisateur=152&mot_de_passe=152
)
It sounds like something which you could easily do in Apache itself, using the mod_rewrite
module. Make as many copies of your login page as you have customers, as
login_customer1.html, login_customer2.html etc.. (with the correct logo in each).
Then set up your VirtualHost as follows:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^customer1.biz
RewriteRule "/login\.html$" "/login_customer1.html" [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^customer2.biz
RewriteRule "/login\.html$" "/login_customer2.html" [L]
etc..
At least that's the general idea.
Check this for details and more info.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html
(of course you could also set up one VirtualHost per customer..)
To get the hostname which the client used to reach the server, use this :
$r->hostname
from
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache2/RequestRec.html#C_hostname_
This gives you the hostname that was mentioned in this request, not the one that is in the
ServerName directive of the configuration section.
There is a difference.
